*** The App Store is currently experiencing technical difficulties. It is possible, that the downloaded Apps or Updates will not work. Therefore, at least for now, please do NOT update to version 2.0. ***

If you do have the issue, the advice seems to be to keep trying to download until you hit an App Store server that does not have the corrupted binary files.

If you have not yet downloaded, then heed the advice and keep on the older version.

So, as suggested, the new version of Lords & Knights for the iPhone and iPad is available and is marked as Version 2.0. However, it does not seem to have been announced on the Lords & Knights website or their Facebook page.

Features include:

Game Center integration

Sound effects and music

Simultaneous unit recruitment (if more than 10 castles)

Simultaneous missions (if more than 8 castles)

Simultaneous resource exchange (if more than 5 castles)

Share spy and battle reports

Mark individual castles in violet

Unsubscribe from a game server

Settings synchronised with iCloud

Alliance wings are given separate diplomacy status of ‘Vassal’ (orange on map)

However, I am having a nightmare getting it to work. It does not launch when updated from my iPhone. And when I try to download it via iTunes, I get an iTunes error 8324 – which seems a popular error from iTunes at the moment according to this post. There is also this post, which seems to be the issue that I am facing, though I also note that many people are downloading with no problems.

Maybe this iTunes / App Store error is why XRALITY are not promoting the new version of the game yet.

So, for the moment, I cannot play Lords & Knights on my iPhone! Grrr!!

I suggest you hold off updating until Apple sort out their iTunes / App Store problems.

The calculator app contains a combat simulator and also assists with calculating attack times for a coordinated attack from multiple castles.

The app is $0.99 and is available in French and English.

I have not yet had a chance to download it yet, but the developer claims that it has been fully tested by beta testers and calculates attack times correctly, so perhaps it will be time for me to put away my trusty Excel spreadsheet!